And it is counter-productive to alienate anyone new who doesn't "toe the line". By branding them as DU disruptors and running them off or banning them, we kill our growth.
People who come here with different ideas need to be looked at as potential converts, not run off. Only a party destined to die rejects new members for being new.
It takes people awhile to come around to conservative philosophy who are new to it. We need to sell our ideas to them, not get ugly on them... Just MHO!
-Hair the softy.
Freepers: we eat our young.
It's part of the reason I kind of have a hard time recommending this site to friends...even though there ARE some very good discussions and it's a great way to see news from lots of different sources, there are also lots of nutcases that make conservatives (especially whatever particular flavor of conservatism they subscribe to) look bad. It's rather sad.